Update V

    Yes I know, "Enough with the goddamn updates!" I imagine you saying because my ego tells me to think that. But as I have said I want to keep you updated on my progress. Now, while it's true I haven't started re-writing yet I have completed pretty much everything for the main characters and back story. I am now starting to plot out the storyline, so I'm hoping to get far enough in that in the next little while that I can start writing the first couple chapters. During that time I was also thinking of starting a new prologue because logically, that should be done very first anyway.

    Now, I started this not only as a way to share my writing but to also get feedback, critiques, opinions, and suggestions from readers. So I want to say that once I start posting parts of the story please feel free to post any thoughts and opinions. And I won't delete negative criticism, unless it's obviously trolling.

    One last thing, I'm bad with names and titles, let's just get that out of the way, with that being said, I have no idea what the title of this story should be. That's it, my cards are on the table, so with that I ask you "What should I name this story?". Yes, it is a bit early for people who have no idea what is going on in the story to throw out names, but what I ask of you is to throw your suggestions at me, be it now or wait until portions of the story get posted so you have a better idea. Full disclosure as well, if I happen to choose a name submitted by someone we can work out some sort of compensation.

    In closing, I think my next update (hopefully the last before I start writing/posting the story) will include some details about the story ie: background, character details, basic plot. I'll work something out. Alright, I better get to it, take care.

Update IV

    Over the last...week and a half? Yeah, I think it's been a week and a half. On second thought, maybe two weeks. Give me a second, I'm going to double check. Yeah, two weeks. So over the last two weeks I've completely written the back-story to the main story and got a good idea of where the story is going. Not only that, but I also have the character developments done for the two main characters: Simon "Sam" Hawley & Gabriel "Gage" Russak. I can't really divulge too much at this time but I'm getting close. In addition to those two I will be keeping JACINTO and refining his character.

    My main focus for the next few days, possibly weeks, is to completely develop the remainder of the main characters I intend to use and to also flesh out some of the main plot points. I am close, I even rewrote part of the prologue already (somewhat similar to the previous one). Before I continue writing the new prologue and get too ahead of myself I plan on getting everything completed that I need. So it should be soon (trust me, I'm getting kind of annoyed myself that I have to put it off so much).

    I know this won't mean much to any of you out there, but since I started writing the back-story it slowly morphed from one idea I never had before to one that included, and heavily relied upon and built on, a story idea I had about 10 years ago. I tried writing the story back then but because I was so young I wasn't able to properly build the story slowly and it became a mess of me rushing the characters to events I thought were great ideas. This lead me to completely ruining the story and scrapping it. Like I said though, I resurrected the idea to fit in with this one, and fit in with this one it did! I can't tell you how excited I am about getting this out to you guys. Until then I will keep you updated and I hope you enjoy the story as much as I'm enjoying developing it right now.

Update III

Over the last couple days I've gone completely back and started working out the backstory and character details to make writing easier so once I start again it will be a lot faster and easier to work. Unfortunately, this means I am going to have to completely rewrite the parts I've already posted. This will be for the better though. A few of the characters we have already met in the beginning will no longer be there, maybe later on in the story but they won't be as big of a part in the story. The other characters have been renamed (I was always bad with names and never really liked the ones I had originally decided on) and have had some other minor changes to them.

I'm not yet at the stage to start my rewrites yet but I am getting close and am looking forward to how this story will turn out. I don't plan on completely abandoning what I have already written and posted. Although it may no longer be a part of the story I have been trying to tell, I think I can turn it into it's own story.

Update II

    It has been too long since I have done an update or even posted a part of my writing. I am truly sorry to all of those that are interested in this story and my writings. I'm not here to tell you I have abandoned the project, that is not the case at all. Perhaps a little context. Right around my last update my fiance and I began the process of buying a house, now without getting into too many details I'll just say, the process of picking, buying, packing, moving, unpacking, sorting, and settling in has been extremely time consuming. For any of you who follow my poetry blog you will see that it has caused me to not be able to keep up to date with posting my poems on there.

    Today I went back over all my notes and plans for this book and realized I didn't have a clear enough vision for exactly where it was going or the backstory. Since it's my day off I took the time to go over and try to zero in on exactly what I want this book and story to be about. Thankfully I was quite successful today and have a vision that is immensely clearer and will be easier to follow and execute. Sadly, I will have to go over the parts I have already written and will have to do some edits and rewrites.

    Now I'm not promising any actual date of when this will all actually get posted up and I'll be back on track with this but I am promising that I am starting to work on this as full time as I can now. I really want to thank you for your patience and I hope you will all forgive me and will continue to read. I am very excited about where I see this story going and hope you will all enjoy the journey as much as I know I will.

Jason

Update

Alright, real quick as I'm at work right now, as I was about to put up part 6 today I took a read of it and noticed that I had to re write parts of it. Since I noticed before I left for work I haven't had time as of yet, my aim is to complete that by Saturday night and have it up in time for Sunday morning.

Again I am really sorry. If you want, you can take this time re read previous parts and comment, critique, and suggest.

Prologue - Part 5

            “Hey, at least I have a car and a license,” that shut him up, “we have to go over what happened to you guys.” I looked over to the one guy who wasn’t smoking. He was sitting on an upside down garbage can staring at the ground wide-eyed, not paying attention to anything going on around him or saying anything, “Hey, Brandon, you alright?” I called to him.

            Brandon showed no sign of even being aware that I had shown up, let alone talked to him. He was dressed in all black, his ears covered with piercings. Brandon was the oldest out of all of us, but by far the shortest, standing a few inches shorter than me. We used that as an excuse to make fun of him but he would threaten us with what he called his ‘native magic’. Before all this happened we played along when he said that but now, there’s no way to know what’s real.

            “He’s been like that ever since we got back.” it was Daron who answered again.  How come he was the only one saying anything and why did he seem like nothing had happened? “Steve’s not much better,” he continued, referring to the third guy there. He was the tall, skinny ginger to my right. Steve was the only one who kept his hair short like me, “he was freaking out before you got here, but as soon as he took a drag of that smoke he started acting like he is now.”

            Suspiciously I looked at Daron, “If they’re so out of it and scared shitless, how come you seem fine?”

            “The only thing that’s keeping me sane right now is the knowledge that we have to sit down and figure this all out, piece it together and figure out our next step. Once all of this is over it’ll probably all hit me. We’ll see what happens to me then, until that time I’m ready to do whatever’s needed.”

            Right then my phone started to ring. Grabbing it out of my jacket pocket I looked down at the screen and saw the word ‘Home’ across it.

            That’s going to be the wife wondering why I’m not home yet. I can’t put up with explaining all of this to her right now. I’ll let her know tomorrow after work.

            Before I put my phone back in my pocket I made sure it was turned off. Stupid idea when my wife is trying to get a hold of me because I know I’m going get in shit for it but my friends needed my attention more at that time.

            “Let’s go inside and hear what you guys found out.” I said. Daron stamped out his cigarette, I watched his foot as he did, “I’m sorry I couldn’t have been there with you guys, it’s just that,” I paused, not wanting to sound crazy for what I had to say.

            “...just that he told you not to.” Daron finished for me.

Prologue - Part 4

In a flash I turned on Jacinto, “After everything we’ve all been through I thought it would be nice for them to be able to have some time to work out what they’ve experienced and been through. As for me coming to the bar I was just giving them space.” I paused, took a deep breath and looked forward, “Sorry man, I didn’t mean to flip on you, it’s just that I’m fried. I’ve been sleeping very little and my heads been killing me.”

I looked over to the passenger seat.

Empty, he’s gone again, of-fucking-course. Nice talking to you Jacinto.

Reached over to the passenger seat and grabbed my phone to check the time.

8:57 pm. SHIT! I have to work at 5:00 am tomorrow morning and I still have to go talk to those guys.

I turned the key to start the engine. Slowly it started to turn over but died.

Not again, come on start.

Turned the key again and pumped the gas pedal rhythmically. Finally the engine roared to life the way only a real muscle car can, especially a muscle car with a hole in the exhaust. Just like that I was off and on my way to hopefully find out more about this world. It started to rain pretty hard so I threw my cigarette out the car window and rolled it up as fast as I could; few things annoyed me as much as getting rain inside my car. Typical weather on the southwest coast of Canada no matter the time of year, even though it’s just about a week before Christmas right now.

            Luckily these guys lived pretty much right around the corner from the bar so I still had a chance to get home and get a decent amount of sleep before work. I pulled up to the house from the gravel alley that passed behind it.  The house and yard looked like shit, the house was dirty and had moss and mould on it, the driveway was cracked with tree roots poking out of it, fence falling apart. The yard was even worse for wear with the grass not having been cut in years, weeds everywhere, and cars and other random crap that didn’t belong on a yard.

           

             I saw two guys standing at the door of the house smoking and a third sitting a little off to the side of them. They watched me pull into the driveway as if they heard me start the car down at the bar. I turned the car off, grabbed my cell phone, and got out.

            “We heard you start your car at the bar all the way from here.” Daron said while forcing out a nervous laugh. These three were my closest friends in the world, maybe even my only friends.

            I have to get that muffler fixed.